The UHD disc of Goodfellas is based on the same 4K scan of the original camera negative that was used to generate the 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray.
With his friends Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, Henry lived the dream life of taking whatever he wanted and answering to no one – until everything caught up with him. The life and times of Henry Hill, who grew up idolizing the wise guys in his neighborhood and eventually became one of them. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film’s lasting power and importance. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences.
Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film.īickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration (“I just knew I had to make this film,” Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Cybill Shepherd. Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture (1976), Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Robert De Niro stars with Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks in the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute. Special Collector’s Edition is digitally remastered and includes a never-before-seen making-of documentary featuring interviews with the creators and stars of the film. Let’s start off with an absolute cinema classic, Taxi Driver. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in and list the best Martin Scorsese films! The Best Martin Scorsese Movies But with a filmmaker like Martin Scorsese, the work is so good that it’s really hard to form an exact order. It should be noted that we’ve included the films in a rough ranking order. So whether you’re doing research on him, or ready to sit down and watch one of these movies tonight, this list of the top Martin Scorsese films will be just what you need! His cinematic canon is wide and deep and we believe this list demonstrates that. Scorsese has produced screen magic with Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull, among many others. In this article, we list what we believe to be the best Martin Scorsese movies. Martin Scorsese is a fantastic filmmaker who’s brought many brilliant films to screens all over the world.